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Matthew 5:38-48
38 "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth
for tooth.'
39 But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If
someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other
also.
40 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let
him have your cloak as well.
41 If someone forces you to go one
mile, go with him two miles.
42 Give to the one who asks you, and
do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
43
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and
hate your enemy.'
44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you,
45 that you may be sons of your
Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the
good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 If
you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not
even the tax collectors doing that?
47 And if you greet only your
brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans
do that?
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is
perfect.
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1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I
have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor
and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain
nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it
does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not
self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the
truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are
prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be
stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we
know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when perfection
comes, the imperfect disappears.
11 When I was a child, I
talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
12
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see
face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as
I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope
and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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